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Books Quotes
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
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"Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts."
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"I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read."
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."
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"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
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"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."
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"Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything."
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"Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph."
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